Comment: Our correspondents write to us that Laitman is always taking our world apart, leaving not a single stone of it standing.

My Response: But that is how it really is. What does it mean that I am taking it apart? What do I have to do with it? Our world is created entirely in evil, and only in evil, because a person relates everything only to himself: whether it is good for me or bad for me, consciously or subconsciously, even unconsciously.

Question: Then what is the process of education? If I am like this and cannot change, what is the process of education that you keep talking about?

Answer: It is so that you will change, so that you will draw the positive force of nature, called the Creator, to yourself, and it will begin to correct your negative force.

Question: So, we always say that for this we must understand that there is only a negative force inside me?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And actually come to hate it?

Answer: Of course.

Question: Is this where the starting point begins? Then I will want the good force.

Answer: Yes, that is all!

Comment: And it exists somewhere right here.

My Response: It is around us. It completely fills all of space! Only we push it away because we do not want it. We are deliberately created this way in order to rise above ourselves, to step out of ourselves toward this common force.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 1/28/26

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Question: How can one use the law “Love your neighbor as yourself” in order to choose the right environment?

Answer: Baal HaSulam writes about this in the article “The Freedom.” A person must find an environment that exactly corresponds to the Hisaron (deficiency) he would like to acquire.

You see that in our lives society dictates what to do to us. Since we already have desires to enjoy, society can impose on me what to enjoy, for example, Coca-Cola. I don’t know what it is, but according to what society instills in me, I go and buy a bottle of Coca-Cola, in which there are a certain number of grams of pleasure.

In a Kabbalistic society, it is different. I must build an environment that will correspond to my expectations. If I want the spiritual world, something sublime, and society tells me that it is worth desiring, then it will thereby force me to constantly think about spirituality, and I will study the method for eight hours a day, but my request will still be in order to receive. I want spirituality, give it to me! Such a demand is not answered from above.

Of course, this is an intermediate stage, and it also exists. But the demand that is answered from above is a demand for the forces of bestowal.

Therefore, I must look for a society that will value this Hisaron. Even if I do not know what it is (I do not yet have this desire), when society begins to “brainwash me” with the message that this is very important and that this is exactly what I lack, I will receive this desire from them; there is bestowal, something that is above my nature, and that it is precisely this that I should demand.

I begin to study books that speak about spirituality, and through them I want to reveal what it is. I want it to make me feel good. When I receive this desire from the group, the surrounding light begins to shine on me and changes me.

Slowly and gradually, the group must show me what I should demand during the study, and then I will reach the desired result.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson on 2/2/26, Rabash, “For Man Is the Tree of the Field – 1”

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Rains means water, and there is no water but Torah.

When Israel were complete wicked in the beginning of the year, they were allotted few rains, but in the end they repented. It is impossible to add, since the sentence has already been given, but the Creator brings them down on time on the soil that needs them (and RASHI interpreted, “On the soil that needs them: on the fields and on the vineyards and on the gardens”) …

Torah gives him strength and power to perform Mitzvot and good deeds… (Rabash, “For Man Is the Tree of the Field – 1”).

We exist in a certain reality in which we must grow. We do not choose how to be born, to whom, or with what qualities. We do not choose our environment or how it will influence us. In this world, essentially, we cannot change anything about our destiny. Therefore, a person living within this world, confined to animalistic life, has no free choice, and consequently there is neither reward nor punishment. They do not perform a single action independently, and therefore it is not said about them that they have Rosh HaShanah.

Rosh HaShanah belongs to one who wants to be a Jew, that is, who desires to attain adhesion with the Creator. Then a person feels that he has a point in the heart, which relates to the realm of the spiritual. This desire is determined from above, and there is nothing to change within it; it contains everything necessary for this point, including the stages of its development. What it lacks is an environment, a group, since the Creator is concealed.

Therefore, a person must build an environment for the point in the heart, through which it will develop. On the corporeal level, a person’s qualities, desires, and environment are predetermined. On the spiritual level, they are given a germ of the soul, the point in the heart, but they are not given the external environment. How a person builds the environment for one’s point in the heart is how one will advance.

If they use this correctly, then all the forces given to them will contribute to the development of this point, and they will begin to develop and grow spiritually. They will find the right path and each of their steps will be very beneficial—in study, in dissemination, in all their actions—on condition that they devote all their forces to creating the right environment.

But if they do not make sufficient efforts to create such an environment and invest their efforts only in study, then even if they study the correct books, it will not help. It will rain heavily, but on a desert instead of a small rain watering a field or garden that needs it. By the way, heavy rains can even be harmful. Everything must be balanced, both the place and the amount.

At the same time, a person should not examine what is determined for him from above: the number of hours of study, his “difficult” life in which he must have a family, earn a living, and take care of his health. The Creator determines how much each one needs, absolutely precisely and in the most beneficial form.

And a person must put in order what is determined for him: the awakening forces, the friends who are near him and placed at his disposal, and so on. If he organizes this correctly, in accordance with the goal, then he advances in the most effective way.

This is the calculation a person must make on Rosh Hashanah. He must crown the Creator as King and bless Him for having provided him with all the necessary conditions.

A person crowns the Creator as the goal he must attain. And then he begins the year knowing that throughout the entire year everything has been predetermined at the beginning, except for his work. And if he fulfills it, he will attain the goal; but if not, then despite the fact that all the conditions were given to him in advance on Rosh Hashanah, he misses this cycle, which is called a year.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson on 2/2/26, Rabash, “For Man Is the Tree of the Field – 1”

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He [the Creator] wants me to feel my state as I do, [not good, deficient, bad, painful, and sick] and for myself, I do not care how I feel myself because I want to work in order to bestow.

Therefore, the main thing is that I need to work for the Creator (Rabash, “The Meaning of Truth and Faith”).

The main point is this: If I direct myself to what I receive from Him, then I must think and examine myself. Do I feel something unpleasant or even pain, or, on the contrary, joy? This depends only on the person.

Therefore, in our life, we can be in constant self-examination. Are we in faith, meaning in the feeling of the Creator, in some closeness, in intention toward Him, or are we merely falling into our egoism?

If I am directed toward the goal, toward the created beings, toward the ten, toward the Creator, then in any state I am in, whatever it may be, I cannot at the same time feel anything terrible, anything deficient.

I do not merely want to get through this state. I will not feel any pain in it; on the contrary, I will begin to reveal great pleasure in it. Because precisely above unpleasantness, pain, problems, fears, and darkness, I can reveal the light, my aspiration to it, and my connection with it.

Therefore, in any circumstances, I must be satisfied with my fate, my work, and my state, and regard this as my great merit that the Creator has given me an opportunity to draw closer to Him.
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From the International Kabbalah Convention 9/7/19, Moldova, Lesson 4

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